Smart City Project
Traffic and Parking Management in
Bergamo
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Sustainable Renovation in the
Upper city
2 Problem areas
Paolo Pesenti
Italy is the country with the highest numebr of cars per person (0.6) excluding Luxemburg and this condition inevitably create problems
. Traffic jams
. Pollution
. Waste of time
. Stressed citizens
. Productivity reduction
. “External costs”
. Long cruising for parking
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Traffic negative effects
In Bergamo there is an extensive use of car because the alternatives are unattractive
Public transports and cycling do not receive the attention they should
deserve
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Bergamo situation
Even if according to some surveys (ISFORT) citizens will be willing to use public transports for the same travel time
The Bergamo’s situation is not a negative exception in Italy, but it is the common “state of art” in all the country. Italy is in backwardness conditions respect to the north European countries in terms of efficient and eco-friendly transports.
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Bergamo situation
poor Government investments
No innovative and sustainable solutions for transports
Car is an hardly replaceable key element of our city
! Increasing traffic
To solve this problem there are 2 solutions: the development of alternative and efficient mean of transports (private or public) or a proper implementation of a traffic management system
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Two ways to solve the problem
Alternative and efficient means
of trasport
Traffic management
system
In dense urban areas, traditional construction of new capacity is cost-prohibitive and often physically impossible
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Traffic Management
The current crisis of mobility can be solved with efficient urban planning and new technologies applied to traffic management
Bergamo has no a lot of opportunities to increase his capacity and physical infrastructures
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Bergamo traffic management
Long queue and paralyzed traffic in Bergamo and the surrounded area during work days (Bergamo, Milan, Brescia)
Poor system of traffic management : . Traffic data from existing solutions are highly inaccurate.. No vehicle detection monitors installed. Monitoring traffic flow from closed circuit television videos (unreliable and time-consuming task)
The city of Bergamo needs a smart solution that allow inhabitants to know in real time the evolution of the traffic, as proposed in “ The City to Come” (Nabian, Ratti).
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What does Bergamo need ?
Intelligente use of infrastructures
Real time info
Citizens distributed and better decisions
Prediction from hystorical data
Advantages for inhabitants and
authorities
. ICT technologies such as microcontrollers and sensor
. Informaton received on Pc or apps for smartphones
. inhabitants can be active participants, enhancing the quality of the traffic management
Between 8% and 74% of traffic in congested downtown areas is caused by people cruising for parking, spending between 3.5 and 14 minutes searching for a space each time they park.
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Parking
Bergamo limits:. A lot of parking in narrow streets.. No wide parking spaces. No uniforme management of private and public parking areasSmart
meters and
parking sensors
Real time info provided to drivers (app) on avaiable
parkings
Advantage for drivers
and officials
SOLUTION
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Examples
. Very interesting management traffic system in : Stockholm (Sweden) and Bucheon City (South Korea) ;. IBM has developed and is implementing new traffic prediction tools;. Interesting example of smart parking systems are in Los Angeles.
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Sustainable renovationOver the last 50 years In Italy the majority of the renovations of ancient building have been focused on the architectural and structural aspects
•Diffused environmental issues
•Sustainability ancient of buildings
•Smart City
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Bergamo Upper city : Città Alta
.Upper city surrounded by Venetian walls built in 17 th century;. Old Square;.Cathedral;San Vigilio Castle….
but also :
. 3100 inhabitants;
. Residential properties;
. Restaurants
. Shops
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Sustainable renovation of historical buildings in the Upper CityIn this context the challenge is to adapt the new solutions of green energy to the ancient building without ruining their typical characteristics and beauty
Reduce
emiissions & Save
Energy
Historical
Heritage
New Challen
ge
Manage the dichotomy new way of building and historical heritage
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Città Alta residential emissions
Sustainable Energy Action Plan, 2010
The data from the SEAP 2010 (Sustainable Energy Action Plan) demonstrate that the residential buildings in the upper city have one of the highest value of carbon emissions per person, equal to 8.28.
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Città Alta emissions In Città Alta the majority of the houses and buildings used for commercial activities have the lowest levels of energy certification (F and G).
The energy certification is a procedure of evaluation established by the European Community in 2002 that helps to classify the level of consumed energy by a building. The highest performance is classified with A, while the lowest with G. The energy class is determined considering the level of kWh/(m2a).
Low energy certification of houses
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Città Alta emissions In Città Alta there are also a lot of churches (as the cathedral) and historical buildings used for tourism and cultural purposes (for instance museums).
These buldings are normally heated
High energy consumption
Conflict between preservation
and conservation measures
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Weak strategiesThe City of Bergamo has already developed a series of strategies of energy conservation in the construction sector.
The objective of SEAP is to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide of 20% by 2020.
BUT… these activities focused mainly on the procedures for the construction of new building and nowadays a clear plan for sustainable renovationsdoes not exist.
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What does Bergamo need ?
Green
solution
sBeauty of historical heritage
Eco-friendly buildings
Design and
aesthetical
solutions
Investments in new
technologies
Consistent
Urban Planning
Balance
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ExamplesThe applied solutions have to be customized for the different buildings and needs, in order to integrate them with the landscape and don’t be aesthetically invasive
Aula Nervi, Rome
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Questions
. How can (historic) buildings be conserved and enhanced through energy-efficient measures?
. Which strategies can be taken to adapt (historic) buildings to new functions and user demands?
. Which options realize an optimum building quality with the least possible intervention?
Thank You for the Attention…
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